Wheatstone 2E English For Sale

[Lawrence Reeves]

I am selling this instrument because I can't play it. I am definitely a diatonic player, and don't want to see this sitting in my closet. I had a total restoration done by Greg Jowaisas, have priced it accordingly. This concertina is ready to play, and be appreciated. I have it on Ebay, but will pull the auction if I get commitment from a member on the forum.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wheatstone-English-Concertina-/271337250888?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f2cf5e048

[JimLucas]

I am selling this instrument because I can't play it. I am definitely a diatonic player, and don't want to see this sitting in my closet. I had a total restoration done by Greg Jowaisas, have priced it accordingly. This concertina is ready to play, and be appreciated. I have it on Ebay, but will pull the auction if I get commitment from a member on the forum.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wheatstone-English-Concertina-/271337250888?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f2cf5e048

 

The description on eBay includes, "Original steel reeds in aluminum pans." I suspect you mean "frames", not "pans". The "frame" is what holds the individual reed; the "pan" is the board that holds all the reeds (in their frames) of an end.

[Lawrence Reeves]

Yes frames.

[Lawrence Reeves]

Folks, I play Irish music only, and although the tone of this instrument is lovely, the fingering is killing me.

[RP3]

Larre,

 

You are not the only Irish Anglo player who can't get his fingers around the concept of the EC. I tried a while back and was completely befuddled. Bet many of the EC players feel the same way about the Anglo.

 

Happy holidays,

 

Ross Schlabach

[ceemonster]

i am a serious anglo player--or thought i was--who has taken to EC like a duck to water. so there you go....i had no problem picking up anglo, though it was a few years of obsessive practice to get all the directional pathways anchored enough for fluid, automatic playing. but i am loving EC because of all the choice you have as to where to switch bellows directions for phrasing. it's not optimal for literal, old-school push-pull "one-row" bisonoric style, but it will switch directions enough to be essentially indistinguishable from flowing "cross-row" bisonoric style--with the signal exception that it's me who gets to choose where and when to switch, rather than the instrument mechanism. it does the phrasing of "long-bow" fiddling or "flowing" east galway flute playing much more satisfyingly than anglo, and i'm hooked on it now...i'll never live it down the next time i show myself in clare.....

 

but i'm in the market for a loud, bright, metal-ended, steel-in-brass EC with tenor notes, so can't jump in on this one.